Dungeon World

Making a City
By default a city is Moderate, Steady, Guard, Market, and Guild (one
of your choice). It also has Oaths with at least two other steadings,
usually a town and a keep. If the city has trade with at least one
steading and fealty from at least one steading choose one:
• The city has permanent defenses, like walls: +Defenses, Oath
(your choice)
• The city is ruled by a single individual: Personage (the ruler),
Power (Political)
• The city is diverse: Dwarven or Elven or both
• The city is a trade hub: Trade (every steading nearby), +Prosperity
• The city is ancient, built on top of its own ruins: History (your
choice), Divine
• The city is a center of learning: Arcane, Craft (your choice), Power
(Arcane)
Choose one problem:
• The city has outgrown its resources: +Population, Need (food)
• The city has designs on nearby territory: Enmity (nearby
steadings), +Defenses
• The city is ruled by a theocracy: -Defenses, Power (Divine)
• The city is ruled by the people: -Defenses, +Population
• The city has supernatural defenses: +Defenses, Blight (related
supernatural creatures)
• The city lies on a place of power: Arcane, Personage (whoever
watches the place of power), Blight (arcane creatures)
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